Application Performance Monitoring auf Open Source Basis: Wie stark leiden unsere User wirklich? Im Cloud-Zeitalter spielt die Verbesserung der End-User-Experience eine zunehmende Rolle wenn es darum geht den Geschäftserfolg zu optimieren. Die Open Source Lösung Alyvix, eine Python basierte End-to-End Monitoring Engine, wurde letzthin deutlich erweitert, um die Identifizierung von Performance- und Zuverlässigkeitsmängeln an geschäftskritischen Applikationen wie Citrix, SAP, Terminal Server usw. zu vereinfachen. Durch die Integration von Anaconda und Robot Framework bietet die kürzlich veröffentlichte Version Alyvix 2 (welche unter GNU GPL lizensiert ist), verschiedene Verbesserungen wie z.B. die Möglichkeit zur Erstellung von Test Cases ohne jegliche Python-Kenntnisse, stabilere Computer Vision Algorithmen und die Visualisierung detaillierter HTML-Reports. Auf der diesjährigen OSMC wird Jürgen Vigna die neuesten Funktionen der End-to-End Monitoring Engine vorstellen.

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END-TO-END MONITORING WITH
ALYVIX
APM On Open Source Basis: Do Users Really Suffer That Much?

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Würth Phoenix: Alyvix‘ Sponsor
 IT and Consulting Company of the Würth-Group
 Headquarter in Italy, European-wide presence, more than 100 employees
 International experience in Business Software and IT Management
 Core competencies in trading processes, wholesale distribution, logistics and
System Monitoring
 ITIL certified, Nagios Solution Provider, OTRS Service Partner, Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner
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About Me
 Over 20 years of experience in the IT branch
 After first experiences in the field of software development for public transport
companies, I joined the young and growing team of Würth Phoenix
 Initially, I was responsible for the internal Linux/Unix infrastructure and the
management of CVS software
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 Afterwards, my main challenge was to
establish the meanwhile well-known IT
System Management Solution
WÜRTHPHOENIX NetEye
 Constant developments, customer
installations and support
 Today I’m NetEye Solution Architect at
Würth Phoenix

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Over 300 NetEye
customers worldwide
More than 500.000
service checks with
NetEye
4 offices in 3 countries
with the HQ in Italy
25.000 monitored
hosts
Our mission is to create the right balance between technology and services for our customers
to support their IT operations and deliver in that way a better business result
Würth Phoenix: Facts And Figures
1,573 1,697
2,264 2,277 2,206 2,203 2,524 2,779 3,122 3,447 3,660
2,047
2,413
2,872 3,000 3,250
3,679
4,135
4,626
5,042
5,156
3,154
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Alan Pipitone: Alyvix’ Founder
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 In 2012 Alan Pipitone created a company with the primary purpose of
providing consultancy applied to the world of robotics and automation
 By combining the experiences gained in the world of automation with the
experiences gained in the information technology area, intelligent
monitoring systems have been created
 Alan Pipitone started to produce custom software to simulate human
behavior necessary to monitor specific applications or to interact with
them
 In 2012 the Open Source project of Alyvix was born in collaboration with
Diesel S.p.a. and Würth Phoenix S.r.l.

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End User Experience Monitoring
• End User Monitoring (often referred to as End User
Experience Monitoring) controls the performance of
business-critical applications from the perspective of the end
user.
• The concept of end user monitoring is based on the
assumption that the quality control of a certain application
has to be made from the user’s point of view rather than
through the monitoring of the single IT components. Single
Databases, web servers and hosts can work properly,
although users might encounter possible anomalies on the
application.
eEnd User Experience
Monitoring
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Active Vs. Passive Approach
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Application performance monitoring from the
user’s perspective through the simulation of the
applications
Application and network latency monitoring from
the end user’s point of view and based on the
branches
ACTIVE
PASSIVE

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Alyvix: How It Works
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Alyvix: Integration To Monitoring Systems
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New Release: Alyvix 2
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• Released on 18th September 2015
• Integration of Robot Framework
• Integration of Anaconda
• Many new features …

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New Features: Simple Deployment
• Through the integration of Anaconda, the deployment of Alyvix 2
and all required components, can be done in 2 steps.
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New Features: Enhanced Computer Vision
• To be sure, that it has recognizes the correct object, Alyvix 2
checks if other related objects are present in the same region.
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New Features: Test Case Creation
• Thanks to the integration of Robot Framework, it is now possible to
create test cases without any Python knowledge. The new RIDE-
plugin allows to automatically create Python methods, which can
be easily recalled by the usage of keywords.
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New Features: HTML Reports
• Alyvix 2 automatically creates HTML Reports, to get information
about performance and other significant metrics. For an easier
troubleshooting, screenshots of the tested application are directly
shown within the HTML reports.
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New Features: HTML Reports

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New Features: API
• Well documented APIs allow to
develop plugins, which can be
reused and shared with the
community.
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New Features: Less CPU Consumption
• Alyvix 2 is optimized to run on machines with lower CPU
performance.
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New Features: Log Retention
• Alyvix 2 provides detailed logs and further grants to overwrite old
logs. The log retention can be configured.
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New Features: Enhanced Security
• For security reasons, credentials within the test cases are
encrypted.
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Distributed Testing of a Citrix Farm
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Monitoring
System

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Performance Statistics
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Same check performed
from different access point

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Video: Citrix Test
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THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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